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A Detroit man described by federal agents as a formerly high-ranking gangster is breaking his silence about the unsolved mystery in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa after decades of refusing to answer questions.

The man — who federal agents say is a main character in the infamous unsolved mystery — says the union leader was buried in a field in suburban Detroit — about 20 miles north of the restaurant where he was last seen.
Eighty-five years old and barely able to walk, Tony Zerilli never thought this day would come.

“I’m dead broke. I got no money,” Zerilli told NBC 4 New York. “My quality of life is zero.”

Last spring, Gov. Mark Dayton (D-MN) and the Minnesota state legislature exploited a legal loophole to approve $348 million in public financing to help build a new stadium for the state’s National Football League franchise, the Minnesota Vikings. The majority of the state’s financing of the stadium would come from revenues gained from new electronic gambling machines placed in bars and restaurants — an idea that seemed fool-proof to Dayton and legislators since Minnesota ranks among the biggest states in charitable gaming.

Less than a year later, revenues from the electronic pull-tab machines are falling far short of projections, and even before ground has been broken on the new stadium, it already looks like a bad deal for Minnesota taxpayers. New financial projections say the revenue from gambling has come in below both monthly and daily targets, and the amount of cash on hand has been cut in half, Minnesota Public Radio reports:

This is a great catch by Jed Lewison. On MSNBC this morning, Rep. Greg Walden — a member of the House GOP leadership — would not directly answer when asked if the House would allow a vote on a debt ceiling hike without a majority of Republicans supporting it. If so, it could very well pass the House, mostly with Democratic support.

There it is again! BEFORE IT IS NEWS! Too much. Remember that guy that used to always make pages to Before It Is News here at LGF? Got banned eventually. TGDN is like the conspiracy nut version of TCOT.

There it is again! BEFORE IT IS NEWS! Too much. Remember that guy that used to always make pages to Before It Is News here at LGF? Got banned eventually. TGDN is like the conspiracy nut version of TCOT.

Just because they figure out a loophole in order to do it never necessarily made it the right decision to go through with it. (And note that they were avoiding public feedback to *not* buy the Vikings ownership a new stadium on the public dime.)

Same games got played in western PA back when Three Rivers Stadium became obsolete. Referendum on a plan to raise taxes to pay for new stadiums was voted down, so “Plan B” was pulled out by local executives to use bonds and other means to put up a pile of public money for the construction.

In a sign that the GOP’s anti-Obamacare fervor may finally be giving way to political reality, Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-MN) latest Obamacare repeal bill doesn’t have a single co-sponsor in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. Bachmann made introducing the repeal bill her first order of business for the 113th Congress, even as millions of Americans waited for House Republicans to act on a disaster relief package in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

I had some herp-derp NRA defender on facebook link to Infowars as “proof” gunz are the best thing evah for crime prevention. When I pointed out who Alex Jones was and what kind of things he believes, NRA defender accused me of “killing the messenger.” o_O

30+ times. But that article is somewhat misleading. You’ve got several individual bills that do essentially the same thing, or that attack individual components of the PPACA, including eliminating the individual mandate (a proposal the Heritage Foundation and GOP embraced for more than 20 years until Obama decided to coopt it in lieu of a single payer - at which time the GOP/rw determined to call it unconstitutional).

The GOP hasn’t given up on undermining the PPACA, they’re just being more cagey about their intentions.

30+ times. But that article is somewhat misleading. You’ve got several individual bills that do essentially the same thing, or that attack individual components of the PPACA, including eliminating the individual mandate (a proposal the Heritage Foundation and GOP embraced for more than 20 years until Obama decided to coopt it in lieu of a single payer - at which time the GOP/rw determined to call it unconstitutional).

The GOP hasn’t given up on undermining the PPACA, they’re just being more cagey about their intentions.

Ah just more subtle ways of trying to eliminate it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this with a law.

“Obsolete”. Heh. Somehow the average age of major college stadiums in the region is around 75 years.

I was trying to find a way to indicate that they wanted to replace Three Rivers without making that a paragraph unto itself. And it was at the time that the various 60-70s multipurpose stadiums (Three Rivers, Riverfront, Veterans, etc.) were starting to develop minor structural issues, needed serious updates, and were generally being replaced with separate stadiums that were built to mainly support baseball or football as compared to being a compromise that tended to support neither very well in one or more ways.

Especially when it’s a football stadium. Mostly 8 games per year, with the possibility of a few concerts.

A few more in Pittsburgh’s case since they share Heinz Field with the Univ. of Pittsburgh* and also use it for some high school games as well.

* - Said deal allowed Pitt to tear down their old stadium that dated to the 1930s and replace it with a new building to be used for basketball** and graduations, plus some additional construction of other facilities.

** - Pitt used to split basketball between the Civic Arena in downtown Pittsburgh (not a great b-ball venue) and the Field House (small capacity) on campus which was also fairly old.

Former Reagan Attorney General Edwin Meese, now a prominent emeritus official at the Heritage Foundation, became the latest conservative to warn that President Obama could risk impeachment if he takes executive action on reducing gun violence in an interview Monday night.

Speaking with Newsmax, Meese said Congress may have to consider impeaching Obama if he were “to try to override the Second Amendment in any way” with an executive order. He did allow that there are some executive actions related to guns that Obama could take wouldn’t be impeachable.

Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Tela Mange said peyote distributors sold more than 1.5 million buttons worth approximately $483,000 last year, up from nearly 1.48 million buttons with a value of $471,000 in 2008.
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Justice Department Spokesman Marc Raimondi released the following statement Tuesday: "Three documents - a criminal Information, a plea agreement, and a statement of facts - were filed today in the United States District Court for the Western District of ...

Morgan Whitaker exposes where wingnuts are getting their "information" on "the evil, un-American, Kenyan, Marxist Muslim" Obama. This story is about a year old, but its still relevant today. David Jackson, of Belmont, NC, does not like President Obama. He ...

This is a random post, but since I did a little bit of research, I decided to write up a short summary that may be useful for others. Ever since the 1988 carbon dating of the Shroud of Turin showed ...

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Jeb Bush has been adamant that he will not switch his positions on two issues, immigration and Common Core standards, that will generate conservative opposition in the Republican primaries. But he just made a major concession to conservatives on ...

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Curt Schilling showed a young punk you don't mess with his daughter on twitter. Schilling's fond paternal congratulations were met with "tweets with the word rape, bloody underwear and pretty much every other vulgar and defiling word you could likely ...

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By this process, you can arrive at a conclusion like this: To win the War on Women, you better put a ring on it. At CPAC, conservatives dedicated an entire panel to "The Future of Marriage." One could be ...

Earlier today interested Redditors posed questions to Poitras and Greenwald in Los Angeles, while Snowden posted from Moscow. A rare opportunity for average people to directly communicate with the (in)famous leaker.See the entire discussion HERE Redditor masondog13 asks: What's the ...

Wait a minute... watching Fox News and the Republican talking heads I learned that all Muslims are bad bad bad and in no way can Islam be interpreted as any sort of peaceful religion. news.yahoo.com OSLO (Reuters) - More than ...

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Added bold is all mine. this was an awkward way to go about gun control anyway. It clearly impacts the law abiding far more than felons, and is by that definition inefficient and intrusive at best. Gonna have to do ...

Frank says:

Don't clap for destroying America. This place is as good as you want to make it. -- Zappa introduced "Billy the Mountain" by revealing that Billy and Ethel took a vacation trip across the United States, destroying it in the process. This was Zappa's response to the applause and cheers from the audience. Cleveland Colliseum, 1971